[olug] mounting my zip drive

[Vincent]

Are you able to partition or format it?  Try   cfdisk /dev/hdc  and see
what it tells you about it.
The disk may be pre formatted for dos.  Is so, try mount -t vfat
/dev/hdc /mnt/zip

mesc wrote:
> 
> After reinstalling linux (not related to not being able to my zip
> drive)I read the url that jason replied to me and tried what it
> suggested but no luck yet.If it helps here's what I get when I run the
> mount /dev/hdc /mnt/zip command with the scsi modules loaded (for scsi
> emulation for my  cd-rw drive>>/dev/hdc: Input/output error
>                                                               mount: you must specify the filesystem type......and here's
> what I get with the scsi modules unloaded>>mount: you must specify the
> filesystem type......so when I specify the type like so>> mount -t  ext2
> /dev/hdc /mnt/zip....I get>>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> superblock on /dev/hdc,
>                                                 or too many mounted file
> systems
> 
> This  has me good.Does anyone have a url that might help me?
> 
>                 Thank you,Gary Martin
> 
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